Monday, August 27, 2007

The Dark Side

Let’s step to the dark side for a moment. Which Republican presidential candidate, either declared or undeclared, would make you least apt to want to cut your own throat if they became the next president of the United States? Which one would cause you to consider grabbing the knife immediately?

There's not one in the current crowd of candidates that make me comfortable.

I had a bad feeling when Bush was elected, and it was no surprise how much of a phony and liar he continues to be. I would never vote Republican, the current band is nothing but a band of traitors that have destroyed the founding ideals that created this country. They are JUST LIKE terrorists, religious extremists forcing their biblical interpretations on those that don't share their mythical beliefs. Thomas Jefferson would be gravely dissappointed in how that party has been destroyed by religion.

they all suck SO bad, i dont know if you can even go down the "lesser of 400 evils" route.

the worst of the bunch is Mitt --- slick, oily, a fucking liar, animal abuser, panderer, hypocrite with a barbie-bimbo wife, and five hard-driving sons who find the best way to help the country is drive around in a van.

but worse is all so relative. all of them make merry men of Third Reich so proud.

what scares me so is the fact i truly believe that this country has NOT learned after the bush debacle -- that the fear-inducing, say-anything republican field will continue to use Atwater/Rove (and strong arming of polling places and control of the MSM) tactics to "ensure" an '08 victory

This is one of those "lose/lose" questions like "death by fire OR death by drowning?" There are so many bad options, but by far the worst candidate is the "Mayor of 9-11" Rudy Giuliani. Possibly even more superficial and dangerous than the bonehead we have in office now, he's managed to turn a photo-op into a run at the Presidency. Let's hope middle America sees through his over-reaching ambition to find the flawed man New Yorkers have known for years.

Ron Paul. He would end the war but never be able to get most of his domestic agenda through Congress, so all of his more extreme nutball libertarianism (and it isn't all nutball) wouldn't have that much of an impact.

Giuliani is a bigger moron than Bush. McCain, though often wrong, is at least a man of genuine integrity (or was until recently).

I cannot bear any of the candidates on either side of the aisle except Dennis Kucinich, Mike Gravel, and Bill Richardson. To me, these men do not represent the military industrial complex. Ron Paul is so interesting, his stance on the war I love, his stance on the Federal Reserve, well, this guy is just asking to be assassinated. However, he is anti-abortion and would dismantle all government social programs. Patricia, I cannot answer that question because I do not go to the dark side, I just do not.

none of the ones running are acceptable to me. of the not running, somebody like hegel or lugar, or john warner (but only because i've been wanting to have liz taylor endorse him by saying "john warner is the finest american i've ever married")

Ron Paul would not make me want to move out of the country, but then he is more of a Libertarian than a Republican... at least in the modern definition of what a Republican is. The worst choice? toss-up on the others, I don't care. I'd vote for a cardboard cutout before I'd vote Republican.

Ron Paul is the least offensive, even though his libertarianism is anti-democratic and completely offensive to me. I would still take him over the others. Mitt Romney scares the hell out of me, but then so do the rest of them.

I have Heard Ron Paul was good but we could not survive another Repub. That is why I fear another stolen election or the chief dink weedd to cancel elections and declare martial law so he can head his wars. I fear their are those that would call for it once he attacks Iran.

This is a very interesting question. Awhile back I would've said McCain would be the one I would be least apt to slit my throat over. But since then I've felt he's sold out and I don't like his support of the war, etc.

Guiliani on one hand is less socially conservative but the rest of his views would be close to a dictatorship. No help there. But I don't think he'd be the worst. I'm thinking maybe Brownback for that title.

Giuliani is my choice for immediate termination of my life. If there were another serious terrorist attack under a President Giuliani, I sincerely wonder whether our republic would survive. I'm sure our country would, but I have real doubts about our constitution surviving.